The pressure is on coach Nash, if these trio will not work, they can easily blame the coach as Nash is not a veteran coach. So, he better do his job properly and deliver a champion for him to gain the respect from other coaches and of course for him to keep his job.
For me, I disagree. Durant, Irving, and Harden are superstars. These players will be blamed instead by most critics if they fail this year. The pressure is on those superstars as everyone is now expecting good on them. And Harden just claimed that the Rockets is not the team he can win with a championship. Expecting critics will always revive that statement once they fail.
When Miami Heat formed a big trio, Coach Erik Spoelstra didn't receive much backlash even working as a coaching staff for long compare to Steve Nash, but the blame went to their superstars instead, Lebron James, which already has lots of critics, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh. The same will goes if the Nets failed to win the championship this season.
The pressure might be on Nash to even get Kyrie back on the court this season. Kyrie is complaining about the Nets and Durant is already complaining about Nash to Harden. Now Kyrie is saying he’s willing to sit out the rest of the year if need be. I think next they’ll be trying to play with no coach... Such toxic players...
Yeah I wouldn't put any pressure on Nash at all. Dude will do best he can do, I see him as a very smart coach that will do his best, however the team is filled with some weird players, Kyrie is all kinds of screwed up we all know that, dude has been talking weird for 5 years now and he has done some weird things, latest was basically saying he doesn't wanna play and get out, he literally refused to play and that's it, never heard that before anywhere in my entire life.
Harden has just forced himself on a trade, dude looks like 500 pounds on his latest games, and averaged 17 ppg in the last 4 games, even if he works really hard to work with the team, dude already pulled some nasty stuff and I do not think he would be that great, and Durant is just a bitter superstar, he has burner accounts to attack his haters, he is not strong in mind type of person. So Nash has a very very hard job and I would take missing the playoffs as a bad coaching, as long as they make it to playoffs that would be fine.